The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-05 00:00:00

ItoklEv- ITAR, T AND f MITAIXII.CIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. In discount circles the week has oommenced in Witt i general activity. The commercial corn. a u nity are now beginning to balance their year's p c , °°u nts, and to make preparations for meeting co ndition periodical liabilities. Besides this the present _vondition of trade is somewhat brisk, and the de mand for accommodation is therefore well kept up. 4 . °0 bankers and brokers have ample funds at their „ 1813 ° 13 a1 but they are nevertteless unwilling to lend taeir capital except at high quotations. The rates Cash to-day for the best three months' bills has ) 3 "° 7 Per cent.—the same es the minimum of the 411 k of England. th Another w i t hd rawa l o f 50 , 000 sovere i gns f rom 813 aLk took place on Saturday. ch T. he Mabsilia, which left yebterday for India and conve l ed £114,352 in specie. Nest, Eyl es , E vans, an d C o., o f C annon - s t ree t eengaged in the silk trade, have suspended r in ent, with liabiliti es o f ab o ut £200,000, but a aurable liquidation is expected. 8 To wards the end of the past week there were ltaPtcms of a revi v i ng an i ma ti on in trade in the man ufacturi ng districts. More firmness was ap parent i n the market for yarns at Manchester, and a b t Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield a full average n uBi ticsa had b een conc l u d e d, an d the hope generally ' rev ailad that a good demand for all descriptions °f fabrics would soon be experienced on account or the ° Pririg trade. At Sheffield and Birmingham the ord ers h a d b een rece i ve d f rom A mer i ca an d Continent, and business assumed an active ap earsnee. Two O'CLOCK. t Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's e ' e g r3 tu the 3 per cent. French Rentes were 65.80 "85, Firm. 1. I T h ere has be e n grea t d u lness to-day in the Eng. 4 8 ; Stock M ar k e t, an d th e F un d s h ave experienced of ' ee line of 4 per cent. The rumoured withdrawals Rohl from the Bank of England, and the very itbusiness in progress, have been the principal Causesc that have led to the downward movement. it_ellsols, less the dividend, for money are 88! 89, T u il d for the January account 89,1 k. The New re ee and Reduced Annuities are 88k ; India 4 1 1 4 eed 52 per Cents., 109; Debentures, 97i 98 ; 11 the Bonds, 5 prem. pri Foreign LStocks have generally been at lower 4 ' 48 2 and the appearance of the market has been cut but cheerful. Mexican remain with 4' alteration, the old loan being 29k n d ,. the new, 27/ ; Greek Bonds have B e-le ed to 22! 231. ; Spanish Passive, !to 0 , and the C ert ifi cates / t o 15/. T ur ki s h 4 1401 ides have receded! to 46 4; the Confederate has fallen k to 59 61; Egyptian Scrip, k to Prel al• ; and the Danubian, ! to/ die, to par. t o i the Railway Share Market there continues w . k4 " Very li tt l e an i mat i on; pr i ces h owever remain e i lthe ta material change. South Eastern have de ite,l4e,d 158 , while North Western, Great Western, i"-North Eastern (Berwick) sustain former rates. h • ee Foreign lines remain dull, at about previous ek es. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are flat. London 4" County h ave d ec li ne d t o 782, Alli a nce to 37, 71 . tith- Eastern to 81, and Jvint.Stock Discount to BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. $ lier "r e l oi MEN T FUNDS. Do era. Consols pe t „ — •cuount Dec 8 Neq k,eut. Reduced .......... 8 8 1 it Ne w 3 4 Per Cent BBfi b o tt per Cent. Jan. 1894 — 4441 l Per Cent Jan. 1873 f iti " es, 30 yrs, expire Jan., 1880 — 1J ( o ) ;7_1 3 0 yrs, expire sth April, 1 885 kued 6ea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Dlhreh. June. aio ' 84 1 1 .1 - or £l,OOO, 4& 3} per Cent. -uo £5OO k 1)0 £lOO and £2OO .. rangland Sta, 5i per Ct. Account -.ltav 'l4 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Stock, 10A per Cant., April 1874.... Account b ° 6 per Cent. July, 1570 121 0 Acconnt ° 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 DLo Certificates 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) per Cent. b -Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent b ° 6 per Cent., Jan. 1872 10 9 -6°° 4 6 i per Cent., May, 1879 per Cent., 'Aug. 1865 u nnder Xl,OOO .... ONE O'CLOCK. 4 FOREIGN FUNDS Brian Bonds, 5 p er C en t ............ --- an 5 p er C ent ........ .... ° 41; per Cent. ' 1852-58-60 ........ .....-- 1863 bi lefle 4) . °.. - Ayres 6 per Cent ~,hi° Account.... 1;4411 6 per Cent. Col 41 Per Ce nt etttoil " i an 6 per C en t 0 6 1) ° Per Cent. - Pe c ki o , „ r ent. 1864 D.l.° Per Cent. 1825 ci,,,'" , ,° per Cent, ' 1864 ~01- I, t ' ar iNet Cosolidated, 1 per Cent — Do Land Warrant 95i I .1.);' an 7 Per Cent 941 1) ' `3econd Issue tirE°l,4loo BondB ---• IP - Per tent., 18'14-5, ex-Coupons — bo .A . „ , o r, ~ ..cou ,lle; °11 1Dous 411, , ccou nt I t),;eiteala 5 per Cent. L .4 4; 1 , 1 ' 8 , 3 9 and 1859 • eXi e s' leer Cent.(Marenunana Railway) D 11 - ", 4 per Cent 4ace out 29i , 6 1)3 1864.. —die 11 Per C'enf Anglo-French o 8„ . • . dis t, O , rip, £43 paid.... dis x d koo P'rencb. Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c k rim, .. • , eli, r.,+ I mperial 5 per Cent Do '"anada .. )3,,P i Per Cent..... D o . " ~ qerred Do read Warrants (liectares) 1861 _... p le)belltures, 4 per Ct., April hp. ° do Aug., 1866 — D o Is til 1 pei Cent .. I), A Per Cent. (Uribarren).. b. li o - ;,i Per Cent , 1862 - ‘ ol l4 . ' n eeunt, . 1)0 At se 3 per Cent., 1853 .. Do acknecUnt — Per C e t 185 6 , '7 '2 '3 '9, '6O, 6, • , 0 I ) A , El ~ , 47 0 '4oliii'h'e•olvat 4 .2(),1 L - 6 Per Cent 1822, £ St., — .11 0 z Per Cent 1850 .. Do .• I), =p er 1860 Cent 1859 — -- Do A Per Cent 1862 B7 6 i _ 1^) - ' 4 gle D ' g o s . - utch •••• ittiiitverlP, 463 paid — pm I EOI .., _ % A_ per Cent. P h l tliiii i lonnt uo A ' Per Cent 1)0 skecount D°ii, N e ,... ~e ... ._ . 411 .) A eoci w il ja -u :erred Do l'arsmv A 15 ,,'Itti 7,%„, e 011nt 331 21 1470 .44;,,,,ert. of Coup not funded — ,e(11 0 1 1 - 7 .2 tint l5l a 15 'uo li n .** Per Cent — 1'1 , 11 4 8 4 -1 2•P • £6O paid .. —pm ' l O ' Per Cent. 1854 • bookeectuit 00 A Pe ticent. 1858 1) <OO )3 o 6 ends - Do per Cent. 1 86' ) Dob .D"'nee'unt - 7li 1 'lOO fon d s ... 0 Qum 4-'0 1863 .. -- Vbo rB6tteed, 4 per Cent..... ette. B erip £4O paid D o ' l lela 3 Pe p C£ , bo k tcouti p t r cput. ~N) 46 per ' Cent., 1862 Do 6 'ettut 51/ 2 P 04 A I , , I)i,i,, ir at, 1861 k,';' , rl 4 , — "lda on the above payable in London I)ki,,"' 6 Per Cent Ex. 10 Florins. r kit .. 41, •• bell 21 Per Cent., Ex. 25f... 4 , 5 1 pePre," C ent., Ex. 12 Gail _ lt, i j'.: .l Qll h e 'ent. Certificates .... ! I ‘ , Eit l, 6 n tes, 3 Per Cent 3:Je A n Per Cent 1861, Ex. ''s francs.. 1 ,4 414 s ' e ettut '' - 614 le l •44 Dollar • ........ , t4orttßonds, 4/ per Ct. Es. 4s. k.! 0 „ ", !-) Per Lent., Ex. 25f — D0 ‘4. 01 'CI Celt, R, At Am() 0 0 A 4 °ti e , 881 i 89 e " cc ztt ' 89a 1 .................... 1 2.a„"Y a ve , 'Pool Cotton Market—This Day, , - .übaleta. " advancing prices. Sales, probably Me et , -irl'il.:l,4lBoftheoharente Inierieure state that 4 'l i 40y,13" LegißlatiVe Body left vacant by the death : t . ,_' t ie f rY will be disputed by 23 candidates, the most °1110154t711)1(Ari are MM. Dufaure, Anatole Lernercier, D e Se " . eville, Ernest Baroche, and Benauld, SHARE MARKETS,—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. 'Share Hallways. Paid. Closing r Business Price. I done. t 8.14, fit et et 50 20 Bir., Wol., and S tr. Val. Blythe and Tyne. I Brlstol and Eketer .... Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A gets no div l ) all Do. B UUC P c 'P an ' has 3 all been paid to 11. 1 Dublin & Belfast June.! all Dun.,Berth,&Ab. June.: all Edinburgh & Glasgow. 100 Glasg. and S. Western.' 100 Great Eastern, Ord. stk 100 Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian et' 100 GreatNorthoi Scotland ' 100 Great Northern.. ; 100 Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an IW. of Irel an. 100 Great Westerr,Original 100 Do Str Val ::us. stows , 700 I Do. South Wales Do. "West Mid. -Oxford 100 Do Newport 100 Do Hereford: 100 6 7 34 36 16 17 90 02 LOG 108 47i 48b ILancashire & Yorkshire, London and Blackwall, Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western' Lon. & So%th Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares... Metropolitan Midland Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kest North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee 1 Nth. Eastern—Berwlok Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. ..... Do. Stook. & Darling. IDo do /855-58 Do do it,-6I !North London Do New Do New, 1804 North StatTortisitire N. and S. W. Junction. Scottish Central Scot. A. E., Aber. stook Do Scot. Mid. stook Shrews. and Welolipool, Shropshire Union South Devon ....._ I South Eastern Staines, Wok.,andWok Taff Vale- • I Do C • Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har. &R 7/ 81 132 134 154 /55 130 132 91 V 3 77} 78i 67 60 57 59 44 46 100 102 1151 1151 81 83 10, WO 33 40 1181 119 97 19 66i t7i 121 :22 13(1 106 iOB 55 67 25 27 114 /15 72 73 1 4 105 *8 39 3) 31 9 r 123 1,6 2 p 79 8') ioi 11 131 138 58 63 40 42 854 86 8 0 160 70 34 44 p 1,0 111 38 40 4FI 8 1376 1561 I 6 77/ 8 1051 I 1 3J 118 k t 122 I} 138 k S 6 1141 I 72f 1042 851 0 The country markets held on Saturday were very quiet for wheat, and both in red and white qualities a limited consumptive business was transacted, at previous quota. tions. Good and fine malting barley sold steadily, at ex treme rates, but for other articles the trade ruled quiet, on 87 89 I former terms. 131 132 On the Continent produce generally remains stationary in value. From New York we learn that the export trade in Lreadstuffs to Europe continues to fall off. The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week wero very moderate. The imports from abroad amounted to 20,710 qrs wheat, 3 . 612 barley, 9,154 oats, 2,152 beans, 2,430 peas, 275 tares, 6,964 linseed, 4,090 rape and oilseeds, 3,011 maize, 220 sundry seeds, and 50 sacks flour. The arrivals of home-grown wheat, fresh up to our market to-day, coastwise and by land carriage, were very moderate, but the condition of the produce, although somewh at infirior, exhibited a slight improvement as cons. pared with Monday last. Although the stands were scantily supplied with samples, there was no improvement in the demand either for red or white qualities. Dry samples, however, changed hands at the prices of Monday last, and damp produce, although difficult of sale, found buyers at about previous quotations. About an average supply of foreign wheat was exhibited for sale. Millers operated to a limited extent in all descrip tions, and showed no disposition to purchase beyond imme diate wants. The business transacted, however, was at previous rates, and our quotations, consequently, are un. ' altered from Monday last. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request at late rates. The market was well supplied with most dsscriptions of barley. The chief activity was in melting produce at about 32s per quarter, such qualities having commanded a some what ready sale. Fine barley was scarce, and was firm in price. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Shan 100 itlantle &St Lawrenc, all 59 61 lotn.,Baroda&.Cent In p 102 j 1'33 Sk Gu. 5 per cent.. ...• • • idis IP iO3 luttalo rand Lake Hu of 4 all 55 II 10 Do. Preteronoe .. all 81 ph too ,tufralo,Brant,&Godricl tOt 1 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, ls; 100 Do. do. July 1, 187 100 75 80 .00 )o. do. June 1, Ps, 100 1:6 100 st Jlcutta.&S.Eastn. ( L . t , 100 st 'apeTown & Dock Scr 8 ) 90 85 [OO Demerara 7 pm. per. pf, all 025 1031 steck itlastn• Bengal gu. p. luv 1 04 )15 104 stool( 11:ast Indian, Ell. sp. c 100 15 20 Do. do. J Ext.. 5 s tock ,4rand Trunk ot Cana & It.a, 21 23 1:0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge per cent As 00 92 100 Do. Ist fret. 80nd,.. au 70 72 701 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 61 84 61 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. all 66 68 56 58 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 53 54 100 Do. 3d Prof. stock ... all 100 Do. do. deferred.-- all 47 60 100 Do. 4th I'ref. stock.— all 3) 32 100 Do. do. deferred...... 1 ,11 28 30 s t o ok It.lndlaPentn.g.,ua.sp.c 100 1033 AM 1015 35 20 Do. Gu t. 5 per cen' .. 12 Pr 3P SO Do. New gun. sp. 0... 2 Pr 4p stook It. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 101 103 stock Do. t 5 per cent.... 100 stock Do so 6 4t. W. of Canada Share, all 81- 95 9 203 Do. New .. 18 114 11 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 83 (0 100 Do. 56 p. c. do. '77-8 . all 80 62 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 5 4 d stock Sladras guar., 5p.0. .. 100 1023 1034 1035 25 35 ( took Do. 45 p. o. Extension 100 96 98 stook Dc. 44 100 91 03 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 'took Uelb.Corp. 6p. o. Buds 100 50 11e1b. & Hobson's Bay. all 60 62 $0 , lewßruuswiok & Cana, Class A and B. all I N.lll.C'da6 pc lst pi bdt , 100 82 94 stock Scinde (100 101 1 0 3 stock 1)0. Delhi 1 100 1024 1033 10 Do. d 0......• w < 2 3d jp st Do. Punjaub , 1,.0 1025 10.33 :ock Do. Indus. St. Flog) 000 95 97 "OLONIA - L GOTERNMENT MTIES. - British Columbia, 6 per ! cent., Dec. 31, 1872 .1 100 ' - Do. do. 1883....1 100 - - - • ~,krov.6 - 1877-81 98 100 100 99 - Do. np. o. Feb. & Au;. ; 100 98 1 0 - Do. 6p. o. Mar. & Sept 100 93 10, - Do. sp. o. Jan.&July. 10c 88 91 - Do. 5 Inscribed stool' 100 87 90 - ape G.Hope, 6p 0,187 100 101 106 Do.Ap &Oct. 188( 100 105 102 Do. 189( 100 106 108 - Jan. & July. 1891 100 109 111 - ;eyion, N0v.1868, 6p • 100 101 105 - vo. 1878, do. 100 1(9 112 ilauritius 6 p.cent.lB73 00 /05 107 Do. 1878 10J 106 109 Do. 832 100 ,07 110 -- atai Gov. 6 per cont 100 0,5 107 N.B.Gov. p.c. J a. 40 100 90 102 - A. S. W. Gov. 6 p 2.,18' 100 97 99 - Do. bp. c.,lBii to Is. 100 95 97 - Do. d0.,1888 &upwdr 100 94 96 'ew Zealand 6 p cent 100 105 lu7 - `lova Scotia GoV. 6p. c. - sterling, 1875 lou 100 102 100 - 4tieensland Gcv. 6p. e , 100 101 101 1 0 4 - Aus Gov. 6 p.0.1t 68- I 100 - Do. 1.7 a &upward lOu 107 109 - Vle•Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul). 100 - - _. Do. io 8 p.c. An.&00... 1 100 107 108 BRITISH. MINES. arraorim Consol. Gold 1 5 - Chiver ton 3 61 71 -inoru Amalgamated. - 334 34 4 - De von G. Con.. (j avid. 580 600 - Drakewal:s.. ~sat Bassett (Illogan, w 50 55 - East Caradon ...... :.It.• 18 20 .:ast Cam Brea 3.4.( 64 7 - East Grenville 2.7.0. 51 6 - East Lovell ....• . • 2.13.6. 15 16 16 tAr'l Russel (Tavistk. 8.1.3.. 51 51 lam.dtSt.AuDyn(Gwen 60 5 7 4 Great Laxey, all 175 184 - .3 reat South Tolgus... 15 2 - ;. Wheal Vor (LW:4ov 40 33 35 35 .-.......... . 7 8 55 6 - tierc.d's-Foot 95 37 .lingston Downs 1.:8.( 445 - Margaret (tJuy Lelan , 8 9 - lark e Valley. 4 •Ivnciv Iron Ore (Lim. 11 / Y an giles.. • - New Sevin ........... 'jot-tit Down , . , 3 15 - North ROSke ar.. 295 17 10 isassetalllo44l, :1.1 11 2 - , lorth Wheal Crotty . 2.8 0 25 2s - Prosper United... 4 3l 3/ .•rovidettee( !Joy Lelut LU 6.7 31 36 - iouthOaradon(St.Cleer 11 20 540 . Wheal Frau. allot:An 15.1 , .t 33 36 - Stray Park . 30.17.( 18 20 Lin Crort . 6 1 7 - Nest Basset (Illogan),. 1 4 7 9 A , CA radon (Liskeard 9 5 - West Chiver ton Setup ... (M... ••• •.. 1.1 210 220 N hes 1 Basset ogan, 51 90 93 Wheal BUller(ltedruth, 10 12 14 - Wheal Lud , ott - Wheal Mary Ann ;Men 8 15 17 - Wheal Beton . . 58.) 195 200 TrelavViley (Lis., 7 19 21 - Wh e al Union 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 5 per cent. rd. pref., 105 North Eastern, York, H. and Selby purchase, 101 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, Am, Metrop. Ext., B 6 per cent., 931 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 41: FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin),:lol FOREIGN MINES, Fortuna 3a Port Philip, St. John dcl Bey (11m.), 36 BANKS. Alliance aim.). 37 Anglo Austrian. 61 Australasia, Ditto, new, 67 Bank of British Columbial 17 City, 1 7 6 Colonial, lira., 43 Commercial Bank of India and the East, i it o, issued at 10 pin., of which 10 is paid, 32i Consolidated Bank, lim., 11 10/ English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 21 European Bank, lira., Ok Imperial Ottoman, 160 4 Land Mortgage Bank of India, Ern., 4/ London B ink of Mexico and S. America, litn., 7} London Chartered Bank of Australia, 251 London and County, '79i ak London Joint Stock, 4'.)1 Mercantile and Exchange, Dm., Olirn ri P rov i n cial Banking Corporation, , 4 &lade, Punjaub, and Delhi, lim„ 101 South Eistern, lira., 8k Union of Ireland, Ern M ., 201 ISCELL ANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, Ern., 9 Credit Foncier and Mobilia of England, Ditto (.£2), 52 E g yptian Corn an d Trading, 5:1 E, glish and Australi an Copper, Gen. Credit and Finan,:e of London, lim., 7 6 / Hudson's Bay, 16'11 . Imperial Mercantile Credit is 680., lina., I n t erna ti o nal Financial society, !lin., 7i London General Omnibus Company, 3 M ,dras Irrigation and Canal, Ditto (ail), 201 Marine Investment, lim , 4 Milwall Iron Works, 4k National Discount CompanY. Ulm , ill National Financial, lim., 61 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 8 2 1 Thames and Mersey Marine (InsuranCe ), Trust and Loan Company of Upper C an ada, 5 Constantinople advices to the 23d ult. have come to hand. Sir Henry Balwer was expected at the Embassy on the 2d inst. The Ciradoe atm left for the Pi? teas to take him on board. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 363 to 403 Ditto, 1861 Ditto, white, 1863 405 443 Ditto, 1864 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864 Ditto, 1863 Talavera, 1864 . 44s 50s Rye— Barley—Grinding 22s 25s Malting, new 3os 353 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6os 63s Brown Kingstown and Ware . OOB 633 Chevalier Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding l9B 228 P otato Youghal and Cork, black lBs 22s Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 2OB 23s Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey. . 33s 368 Maple White Boilers 36s 408 Flour —Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2Bs 30s Stockton and Norfolk .. 268 288 American, per barrel 193 215 METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of foreign beasts and calves here to-Jay was limited, of sheep tolerably good. The general condition of the stock, however, was inferior. Fresh up this morning from our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, the arrivals of beasts wero moderato, and of improved quality. All good and prime breeds com manded a steady sale ; nevertheless the extreme rates of last week were not supported. Interior beasts moved off slowly, at previous currencies. The best Scots and crosses sold at 5s 4d to 5s 61 per Bibs. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire. and Northampton shire, wo received 1,900 shorthorns, &c., from other parts of England 500 various breeds, from Scotland 295 Scots and crosses, and from Ireland 300 oxen and heifers. With sheep we were tolerably well, but not to say heavily au/ Tiled. The quality of most breeds was very middling. The best Downs and half-breds sold readily, at very full prices ; but inferior breeds were dull, at barely late rates, The top figure was 5s Iod per 81bs. Calves—the supply of which was limited—commanded a steady sale at lull quotations—viz., from 4s 41 to 5s 4d per Sibs. Primo small pigs were the turn dearer, with a good de mand, but large hogs were very dull. The great Christmas market will bo held hero:on Mon day next. Is 7d to 2s—medium do., is 41c1 to is 51d—and greasy do., 91d to is per lb. Up to the present time about 55,000 bales of wool have been disposed of, I❑ the trade for English wool, by private contract, there is less activity. owing, in some measure, to increased firmness in the money maaket. The late advance in prices is, however, supported. The import into London last week was 1,041 bales from Por Natal, and 182 bales from Bremen, Current prices of English wool per lb, s d Fleeces —South Down hoggets 2 0 Halt-bred do Kent fleeces. south Down ewes and wethers 1 11 Leicester do, Sorts—Clothing Combing SEEDS. s d 2 lf 2 3 2 21 2 0 2 2 2 01 2 2 For the time of year the stock of seeds was large. The dem tnd, however, was only moderate, at about late rates. The he ivy arrivals of East India linseed have caused a re duction in the value of that article. R , peeved s old steadily at full late currencies. An avert.ge business was passing in cakes, and prices ruled firm. Mustard, Brown .. —s rurntp,Wh C ite,p.bus.2Cs to 22 3 ' arraway 34s 35s Swede ---s s Coriander 215 25s s I flempseed, per qr 42s 4 qi White, Tares, Spring.... .• s m i s Crushing -- New.winter, bush I's 1; s i Baltic —s —s Canary, per quarter —s -8 I Odessa Rye grass • .. 24s 28 I Li n seed Cake, p ton —s —s Clover, lied Eng., et. - s 8 English £lo Os £ ll 513 White -s s Foreign ' .i 9 lOs .£ll 5s Foreign Red — a --s , Rape Cakes& ton £slos .£6 5s White — s Trefoil new. —s ' Rapeseed, uew,pr qr 74 s 783 Archaeological Institute. An ordinary meeting of the members of the Arcbsologi cal Institute was held on Friday afternoon in their rooms in Burlington-gardens—Sir John Boileau in the chair. Mr Purnell read a paper, by Mr C. W. King, author of " The Gnostics and their Remains," on ancient gem en graving, in which he undertook to show that the art of engraving on gems was not practised in Europe during the Gothic period, from the time of Charlemagne until 500 years afterwards. In the Middle Ages, he said, the engravers worked on softer materials, and on the revival of the art in the 14th century the first engraving on gems were evidently executed by artists who had baen accustomed to work in metals. Mr 0. Morgan, M.P., exhibited a very curious example of engraving on hard stone. the property of Mr Bosanquet, from Babylon. It was a small cylinder, on which, among other devices, was engraved a bull with a human head. The data of it was conjectured to be 100 years before Cyrus. Mr Morgan also exhibited a beautifully executed cameo, on which was a figure of St. George, of Cappadocia. A brief discussion arose, in which Professor Westmacott and the Rev. Dr Rock took part on the question whether our St. Gorge and St. George of Cappadocia were identical, or were different personages ; for in the cameo a female figure is introduced, which does not appear in the English decoration. In the course of the discussion, Professor Westmacott mentioned an anachronism of Sir Walter Scott's, in his minute description of the costume of the Earl of Leicester, in " Kenilworth," in which Leicester is described as wearing the star, though that decoration was not worn until the reign of Charles I. The next paper was read by Professor Westmacott, on the statuary recently added to the British Museum, in which he directed attention almost exclusively to the nude statute of a boy, who is represented to be standing, resting his weight on one leg, end to be tying a fillet round his head. This statue, Professor Westmacott said, there is sufficient inherent evidence to show, was sculptured about 600 years before the Christian era, and that it is either an excellent copy of the celebrated Diodumonus, by Polyclitus, if not the original. Professor Westmacott described the statue very minutely, and compared it with the description given of •the original by Pliny, wha.said it was valued at 100 gold talents, which would be equivalent to 426;000. The statue, which was brought from Rome, had been previously considerably injured, and had been repaired very clumsily. The left arm was broken, a modern one having been substituted, and the nose also was mutilated. The statue was of Grecian marble, and from the style of execution it had evidently belonged to the age of Greek sculpture preceding that of Phidias. Professor Westmacott adduced various particrears in confirmation of his opinion that if it was not the original Diodumenus described by Pliny, it was a copy of that statue, and he was strongly in clined to think that it was the statue itself. Dr BIRCH put a somewhat different interpretation on he words of Pliny to that given by Professor Westmacott, which made it doubtful whether the original was executed in bronze or in marble- The rough manner in which the statue had been repaired induced him also to doubt whether it would have been considered in ancient times of the great value of the original statue. The question whether it was an original or a copy was, however, mainly an artistic ques tion, and no one, he said, was better capable of determining it than the author of the paper. Professor WESTMA.COTT said there were lines about the the nose and mouth so expressive of genius and originality that he thought it highly probable the statue was an origi- nal. It .was the figure of an athlete, and from the largo development of the muscles of the legs compared with those of the arms, he conjectured it must be the representation of a victor in races. After some remarks from the Rev. Dr Rock and others, 'he meeting adjourned. MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—SOUTH AMPTON, Sunday.—A most atrocious and cold, blooded murder was committed last night at the village of Shirley, about two miles from this town, followed immedi ately by the attempted suicide et the assassin. The mur derer's name is Broomfield, a butler in a gentleman's family in Loudon, and his victim was Mr Frederick Coburn, now resident at Shirley. It appears that the parties formerly lived together in a family at Alrestord in this county, as butler and lady's-maid. Contrary to his wishes and desires, the latter married from that situation, and Broomfield sub sequently left and went to London, where he has also since married. Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon ho cam© down from London by the three o'clock train, and went over at once to the deceased's house at Shirley, where he was in vited to take tea. After tea Mr Coburn said to his wife that they had bettor go out and do their marketing, as it was Saturday evening, on which Broomfield said, " Well, don't go out and leave me hero alone, but if you go your wife had better stop here with me." This was objected to, and they went out together, leaving Broomfield alone. After they had been back a little while Mrs Coburn was about to get supper, and her husband left the room for a few moments, 'a hen Bloomfield immediately pulled out a revolver and fired at the poor woman, who ran to the back door and there fell dead. He then fired two of the barrels at himself, and ran after her, falling on her at the back door. He was subsequently brought into the Royal South Hants Infirmaiy. in this town. where he has received medical assistance, End it has been found that one of the shots passed under his lunge, and the first apparently passed off from the chmt without doing any serious injury. He is not expected to recover. Broomfield himself says that he came down from London to get her to go away to America with him, which she refused to do. The murder must have been deliberately planned in case of Mrs Co burn's refusal to accede to his request, as he brought the revolver down with him from London, having, it is said, purchased it at a shop in Oxford-street. Two shots were found in two of the barrels of the revolver after the affair. THE PUBLIC PRESS AND THE QUACKS.—Among the most salutary of the consequences which may be antici pated from the righteous punishment of Henery and his accomplice is the influence which it may exert on public opinion, and the additional demonstration which it affords of the necessity of that purging of the advertisement sheets of the public journals which we have long urged, hitherto with little effect. The opportunities afforded to these scoundrels for gathering in their crop of victims by the daily and weekly press of the metropolis and the provinces are the most fruitful of the sources of their infamous pros perity. The exposure and the denunciation of these fellows by the medical press have been unsparing. We have re peatedly singled them out by name, and have stigmatised their filthy works, their vile practices, and their shameful extortions. It is not just, therefore, to say, as has recently been stated, that the medical profession or its representa tives shrink from the dangerous duty of openly denouncing and exposing these men. But a great responsibility lies with the conductors of those daily journals who consent to receive and parade on their broadsheets the filthy adver tisements of these unblushing miscreants. Take up many of the most respectable and influential of the London daily papers. and the eye will be arrested almost immediately by obscene announcements cf " Guides to Manhood," " Silent Friends," " Treatises on Manhood," and other vile publications of an equally disgusting and dangerous charac ter. With country papers it is still worse. Column after column is frequently filled up with baits of the kind, cun ningly spread for the unwary; professing to reveal secrets which excite the curiosity of some, and appeal to the fears of others; which ten•pt the imagination of the young, and hold out promise to the prurient; and which are so written as Jo excite groundless fears in the mind of almost e every reader to distort' ordinary symptoms, to draw gloomy pic tures of future misery, and by every artifice and lie to draw victims within the trap of the quacks who devise such books as instruments of their infamous trade. Thousands have suf fered from yielding to the temptation : and, being drawn within tho net, have been terrified, swindled, and many of them driven nearly to frenzy by tho false fears thus created and cunningly towered. The conductors of tho public press are mainly responsible for the gigantic proportions which this evil has assumed. That we do not exaggerate the facts in describing them as gigantic may be proved by references to our own columns for some years past ; by an appeal to the experience of the whole medical profession, of whom there aro really few who could not repeat tales of suffering and extortion within their own experience; by the evidence of many crimiaal solicitors, of whom there are scores who have been employed in resisting or compromising claims set up by these rogues. It is of little use for the writers in tho public journals to indite indignant leaders on tho subject of the vile traffic of these quacks, or to frame denunciations et their abominable practices, while the advertisement sheets are still left open to their announcements, and the whole circulation of the papers is utilised for bringing fresh vic tims to the sacrifice. We earnestly appeal to them to re fuse any more to permit their columns to be thus sullied. --The Lama. A JUDGE IN THE STOCKS.—A ludicrous story is told of Lord Camden being on a visit to Lord Dacro in Essex, and accompanying a gentleman, notorious for his abience of mind, in a walk, during which they came to the parish stocks. Having a wish to know the nature of the punishment the chief justice begged his companion to open them so that he might try. This being done his friend sauntered on and totally forgot him. The imprisoned chief tried in vain to release himself, and on asking a peasant who was passing by to let him out, was laughed at and told he "wasn't sot there for nothing." Ho was soon sot at liberty by the servants of his host; and afterwards on the trial of an action for false imprisonment against a magistrate by some fellow whom he had set on the stocks, on the counsel for the defendant ridiculing the charge and declaring it was no punishment at all, his lordship leaned over and whis pered, " Brother, were you ever in the stocks P' The counsel indignantly replied, "Never, my lord." "Then I have been," said the chief justice, " and I can assure you it is not the trifis you represent it."—Foss's ,judgis of England. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.—Mr W. Ratbbone Gregg, Commissioner of Customs, has been appointed Con troller of the Stationary - office, in the room of the late Mr J. R. M'Calloe,h. Colonel Frederick Hominy has been ap pointed to a seat at the Board of Customs, in the room of Mr Gregg.— Observer. SALE OF BLAIR ATHOL.—Mr. J. Jackson, of Fairfield, has purchased the above celebrated " racing crack" for the sum of 7,500 guineas, by far the largest sum given in modern times for a race-borsch—Bell Life Per 81bs. to sink the offal. 8. d. e. d. Crse. &inf. beaks 3 6 4 2 Seeondquality do. 4 4 4 10 Prime large oxen 5 0 5 2 Prime Scots, ac. 5 4 5 6 Urse. & inf. sheep 3 10 4 6 Second quality do. 4 8 5 0 Lambs....o , Suckling calves, 16s to 22s ; 20s to 268 each. TOTAL SJPl'L'ir. __ s. d. s d Primecrs-wool d 0.5 2 5 6 rme.S'thdowndo.s 8 5 10 Largo arse. calves 4 4 4 10 Prime small do 5 0 5 4 Large hogs 3 6 4 4 ;Small porkers 4 6 4 10 s Od to Os Od. and quarter-old store pigs, Beasts . FOPEIGT SUPPLY. Beastd Sheep Calved Piga Cows — Sheep Calves Pigs 2501 The total imparts of foreign stock into London, last week amounted to 12,148 head. In the corresponding week in 1863, wo received 9,752—in 1862, 5,033 —in 1861, 4,951 —in 1860, 6,103 —in 1859, 4,311 —in 1858, 4,322. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LASI WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Antwerp — .. •• •• 17 .• Bremen 33 ... 7 • . • • ---- Boulogne.... . • • • -- • • • • .. 399 Calais Dordt. 9O .. 2406 • . • . • . Dunkirk — .. .. -- •• •• 34 Gibraltar — e• •• es ---- •• Hamburg Harlingen Medemblik Nieu Diep - •• •• Ostend 43 .. .. .. 17 .. Rotterdam lllB ~, 2791 .. —.. 460 .. 314 Tonning .773 .. 459 .. .. .. Cadiz 139 .. "-' • • —.—, Total ....2,368 .. 8 , 393 .. .. 603 .. 874 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Figs. 1863 2186 .. 6,96 I .. .. 440 .. 166 1862 678 .. 4,00 .. .. 305 .. 1861 706 .. _4, 14 i .. —. .. 45 .. 66 1860 - .. .. .. 1859 — .. ---- .. -- .. .. --- A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Dec. 7, 1863, and this day, Monday, Dec. 5, 1864. Per 81b. to sink the offal. Dec. 7, Dec. 5, 1863. 1864. Coarse and inferior boasts.... 3 6to 3 10 3 6to 4 2 S ec ond quality do. 4 0 4 6 4 4 410 Prime large 0xen............ 4 8 5 0 5 0 5 2 Prime Scots, &c. ............ 5 0 5 2 5 4 5 6 Coarse and inferior sheep .... 4 0 4 6 310 4 6 S ec ond quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do 5458 5 2 5 6 Prime Southdown do. Lambs 404 8 4 2 4 8 Large coarse calves Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4,860 6,580 Beasts .. Sheep and lambs Calves Pigs 4 40 350 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Dec B, 1862.—Boasts, 4,830 — sheep, 1 ,190—calves, 159—pigs, 330. DEC. 9, 1861.—Beasts, 4,420 —sheep, 16,230 —calves, 87—pigs, 870. _____ NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL. Moderate supplies of town and country-killed meat are on sale at these markets. The trade, generally speaking, rules inactive, yet prices of all descriptions are very firm, - - Per 81b. by the carcase. sded Inferior boef .. 3 0 3 4 Nliddling do. .. 3 6 4 0 Prime large do. 4 2 4 4 Do. small do. .. 4 6 4 8 Largo pork .... 3 6 4 4 Inferior mutton. 3 6 4 0 d s Middling mutton 4 2 4 Prime do ....... 8 5 Veal. o .. 3 10 4 8 Small pork 4 6 5 Lamb .. 0 0 0 0 BOROUGH HOP. Tho firmness of the hop trade continues umbated. The supplies of English and foreign produce brought forward command a steady sale, and previous quotations are well supported. Last week's import amounted to 11 bales from Antwerp, 62 Ostend, 202 Rotterdam, 189 Hamburg, 113 Boulogne, and 34 from Dunkirk. per cwt. New Mid and East Kent ........ 100 s to 200 s New Weaid of Kent New Sussex Yearlings BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The supplies of home-grown potatoes on sale at these markets are tolerably large. In most descriptions a fair average business is doing, and prices rulo firm. With foreign produce the market is scantily supplied. The import into into London last w eek was 167 bag, &o from Hamburg, 13 from Tonging, and 2 from Boulogne. Yo r kshire Regents ............ 90s to 110 s per ton. 100 s to 12 9 s „ Flukes .................. Kent and Essex R e gents ...... 80s to 10 08 „ Rocks ......... 70s t o 80s „ Scotch Regents Foreign .......... GOB to 7 0 e ~ WOOL. The attendance of hemo buyers at the public sales of co. lonial wool now in progress is tolerably large, and there is about an average representation of continental buyers. The biddings for nearly all descriptions of wool rule steady, at the alterations in prices from last series noticed last week The e xport demand is chiefly confined to purchases to a for shipment to Germany. French buyers having operated very limited extent, whilst on American account scarcely any s a les have been effcct,2d. Good Australian clothing id wool is still quoted at is lUd to 2s Gd e wool do. combing, la 1 to 2s 61—greasy, is ld to is fild—good and fine Cap, Particulars. 1850. I 1831 Stock this day.— 73.36) i 50,973 Price of 6086 a t0:52861 to —s —sod Delivery lastwook 1.457 2,069 Ditto from June 1 50,'123 78,13) Arrivals last week ),179 7,461 Ditto from June 1 98,'); 6 73,351 Price of Town ....! 60s 3il 53s 6,1 1862. 1803. 66:909 70.764 62,184 4556'1 to 41561 so 408 Od to —5 Cd Od -- sOd 2,023 1,5 o:, I,OA 43,563 35,552 45,600 2, 43 2,589 3,432 61, 6J 68,76 4 62,2)3 475 9d 43s Od 43s lid POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. ROBBERY AT ST. JAMES'S Wonlatousn —Margaret Parkin, a tall elderly woman, an inmate of St. James's Workhouse, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with stealing some table knives, the property of the guardians of St James's parish. The prisoner was allowed to go out of the workhouse yesterday morning to attend her chapel, when she took the opportunity of taking the knives away with her, and offered them for sale at the shop of Mr Levy, Dudley-street, but it being seen there that they bore the words •' St. James's Workhouse" upon them they were stopped, and prisoner made off and escaped, leaving the knives behind her. In the afternoon the assistant to Mr Levy went to the work house and identified the prisoner, who had returned to the workhouse at dinner time, as the person who had offered the knives for sale, and she was given into custody. The prisoner said she was never in Mr Levy's shop in her life—never saw the assistant—and never that way. She, however, wished to be tried by the magistrate. Mr Levy's assistant said he was positive the prisoner was the women. Mr Tyrwhitt said he had no doubt she had stolen the knives, and committed her for 21 days. WESTMINSTER. CAUGHT AT LAST.—llenry Clarke, a journeyman painter, was placed at the bar charged with stealing a watch and chain, value £5. Mrs Sarah Howard stated that she was staying in November last in the house of a Mr Turnbuck, 9, Melton. street, Grosvenor-place, which was under repair. On the 10th of that month, between 7 and 8 in the morning, she eft her watch and locket in a drawer in her bedroom, and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon found it had been stolen. She immediately came to the conclusion that one of the work men must have carried it off, and she accordingly commu nicated her suspicions to the foreman of the event. The prisoner absconded, and was lost sight of for a fortnight, when he was given into custody, but as the property could not be found, and there was not sufficient evidence to jus.. tify the detention of the prisoner,he was sot at large, but in consequence of some fresh information obtained, she gave the prisoner into custody on Saturday again upon the charge. Frederick Jackey, assistant to a pawnbroker, 160, Black friars-road, said that the watch he now produced was pawned on the day it was stolen. It was looked at, and a fresh ticket taken upon it on the Ist inst. It was originally pawned in the prisoner's Larne. A police-constable st‘4l he went to Hampton-row, Wal worth, on Saturday night cud took the prisoner into cus tody. He at first deniod stealing the things, but hearing the watch was found he said oa his way to the station, " I am very sorry I did take the watch and chain, and I have sold the chain to a Mr Jones in Gravel-lane, with the locket which was on it." Mrs Howard identified the watch which was purchased by the pawnbroker's assistant. Prisoner was remanded, and prompt proceedings ordered to endeavour to recover the gold chain and locket. Stook stook stock stook 4toek 8:00k THE Su N, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING', DECEMBUZ 5, 1864. MARKETS---This Day. MARK-LANE. TALLOW. The tallow trade is dull to-day, and prices having given way, P.Y.C. is quoted at 40s 9i per cwt. on the spot. Town tallow is quoted at 41s 3d net cash. Rough fat has declined to 2s ld per 81b. THAMES. A LADY DRUNKARD.-11l consequence of the court being under repair, the magistrates have been transacting business in the usher's room in front of the building. This morn• ing, after the hearing of several night charges, a lady, who appeared in a state of great agitation, was ushered iuto the temporary court by a tall gentleman. There was something so dist ingue in their appearance, that everybody made way for them, and the lady, who was well dressed and carried a muff in front of her, was escorted to a chair alongside our reporter, who was seated in front of a small table. The lady lady seemed to feel acutely the disgraceful position she was in, and would have fainted if she had not been supported by Sergeant Sutherland, 46 K. The gentleman who acted as cicerone raised her veil at the same time. This had scarcely been done when a police-constable whispered to her, and she stood up and staggered towards a desk and sot , bed loudly. At the same time her servant girl, who came into the court with her mistress, stood behind the desk whoa prisoners have been placed since the temporary court has been in operation. Mr Paget—The lady appears ill and agitated—let her be seated. The lady dropped into a seat, and Coley, 417 K, said she was a prisoner. Mr Paget—A prisoner, is she? 'Then she must stand in he usual place. The lady, who rallied wonderfully, stood up in the place pointed out, and said her name was Rebecca Walker, of No. 37, Old Ford, Bow. Coley stated that on Saturday night at half-past nine o'clock ho saw the prisoner very drunk in the Mile-end road. There were a groat ma ny people about her, laughing and jeering. She was very noisy and staggering. She had a brown paper parcel in h er h and, an d h o was f ear f u l i t would be lost or stolen. Ho took her to the station-house. She was locked up four hours and then bailed. Paget—What have Mr You to say, Mrs Walker ? You are charged with being drunk in tho public road. Mrs Walker, who is rather a handsome woman, about 35 years of age, simpered out.. = can't account for it, sir, Mr Paget—llew very disgraceful. lam surprised that a person of your appearance, and holding, as I suppose you do, a respectable position in society, should be drunk in the public streets. Tho prisoner's friend here volunteered an apology for her, and said she was ill on Saturday. Mr Paget —Who aro you, sir. The gentleman—l am a jeweller, her neighbour. I bailed her out. Her husband is a commercial traveller, now travelling. He has been away three months. • Mr Paget--And h is wile g e tting drunk. How shocking this is I The gentleman—She has been ill some time. Mr Paget—The prisoner is fined five shillings for being drunk. The gentleman took out his purse and paid the fine. The enthusiastic reception given to Col. 111‘111urdo by the various Volunteer corps in the course of the last two weeks proves how high a sense the officers and men of that remarkable organisation entertain of the services and c h ara cter of the man un der whose ha nds and eye they have attained their prese nt efficiency. The ex p r ession o f such sentimentsand is must perhaps bem the rewardeet h gratifyinge to the Inspector- General,will most appreciate. —Army OltaFndiGaElllGE7lN 4tC BANK AMERICA.--A story of forge ries is being brought to light in our police-court. One case, involving 25,000 dole, has been gone into, and a gang of 10 have already been secured. But this sum is sup posed to be a mere fraction of the amount that will yet be shown to have been raised by the forgers on different banks. Some of thos e who profess to be informed on the subject estimate the gross fergcries which this first else appear to have been in that will bring to light at from 300,0 cosh to 500,000 dole. And if believe the future disclo suress ed at our banks are as the facilities far getting check i may turn out to be fearful. The city is evidently great tricd e n s t c e r v d e a7, a w s e e overr un with organise d bands of plunderers, who arrange and perfect their p lans for robbing the community on a caasnthrceaydil y a scale of unprecedented i nagni'ude.—.tide l'ork 21 . 1110, GRIEF AND INSANITY. --A tragical event has taken place at Pesth. The wife of a swimming master in that town having lately lost even of her children leaving her only her youngest, a few months old, and that one showing symp , ouna . o f the disease which had car ri e d off the others, lost her reason. The poor woman in her frenzy broke every article of furniture, and when the neighbours. alarmed at the noise, broke open the door, they found her with the child dead in her aims. On her husband return ing home, and finding what had taken place, he also became a lunatic, The woman has been sent to an asylum, The Wreck of the Dalhousie, On Friday, the first day the weather permitted, Mr Crichton, agitnt for Lloyds, and Mr Robertson, one of the owners,. sailed from Dundee in the steam. tug Sampson to the scene of the wreck of the Dal housie, which was lost at the mouth of the Frith of Tay, on the voyage from Newcastla to Dundee, on the 24th ult. She was found to be swamped in deep water, leading to the impression that she had not been filled from below, but from above. It is thought she must have foundered in the tremendous seas, and not run on the bank, as first Supposed. She was about a mile and a quarter from the Fife shore, and in sufficiently deep water to have floated. The depth of water in which the vessel was found was about 20 feet fore and aft and 17 in the middle, the soundings being Wien at ebb tide; but the shallower water around the ship showed that she was burrowing in the sand to the depth of four or five feet. The top of the companio❑ was barely covered, and the door was standing open. A nook was applied to the stair, but no bodies were found near it. No more bodies have been floated ashore since Tuesday last, and those hitherto got are the bodies of the crew, or persons likely to render aid in a storm. The corpses of the passengers are believed to be still in the cabin or berths, and it is intended to send down a diver to bring them up. The hull of the ship appeared to be intact, and it is thought that the cargo can yet be recovered and the vessel raised. The exact number of lives lost is not cer tain. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, professional vocalists, are believed to have had three children with them, instead of two, as at first reported, Their luggage, which had floated off the deck, has been recovered, and in one of the boxes was found a nursing bottle, leading to the belief that Mrs Cleveland had a baby in addition to the two children entered on the books. John Egictou, supposed to have brim No with - tyro of his children, happily missed the train at Sunder. land, and took the Leith vessel instead, as did also two seamen going to Dundee. A passenger named Tornmey has been identified. He was, it appears, going to Dundee in search of work. He has left a wife and seven of his nine children in Ireland. About £1,700 or £l,BOO have been raised in Dundee for the widows and orphans deprived of support by the calamity. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, Dec. 6.—Wind this day at noon—South- West; light breeze, and fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—lnvesti gator, from Bel;ze. OFF PonTsmourH, Dec. 4.—Arrived—Centurion, from London for Sydaey—Trevelyan, from London for Cal cutta. OFF DARTMOUTif, Dec. 4—Arrived—Young Irishman, rrom London for Hong Kong. NEwrouT, Deo. 3.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Emma, From Mauritius. CARDIFF. Dec. 3.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Empire, from Quebec—Gilbert Wheaton, from St Michael's. Sailed— Antioch, for St Jago de Cuba. OFF POOLE BAY, Dec. 4.—Arrived—Bombay, from Lon don for Auckland. BRISTOL CHANNEL, Dec, 4.—Arrived—Robert Bristow, from Portland. R&MSGATE, Dec. 4.—Arrived—Trurnjohn, from Grimsby for Gibraltar. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, Die. s —Elizabeth, from Cuxhaven—Napoleon, from Gravelines—Johanna Petronella, from Holsingborg— Wild Roso, Clansman, and Sundew, from Cronstadt. _ DEAL, Monday Morning. Palmed. Dec. 4—Holonebank, from Colombo, for London. Sailod, Dec. s—Three Bells (ship), trom Japan, for Itot: terdam—Soine and Tamilo (screw steamer), from Paris, for London. COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.—At a meeting of the council of this corporation on Saturday, the diploma of Licentiate was granted to Mr W. T. Jones, 8.A., Queen's College, Cambridge—to Mr William Martin, 8.A., London —and to Mr J. 'V.:Jones, Grove Park School, Wrexham. The diploma of Associate was granted to Mr James Hays man, of Burdett House, Burdett-road, E. The following gentlemen were elected members of the college—Mr A. RI Abbott, Grove House, Tottenham—Mr W, Famcombe, Staple-cross, Hurst-green—Mr W. H. F. Johnson, M.A., Llandaff House, Cambridge—Mr F. Nash, Kensington Collegiate School—Mr Harry Smith, Arthur-street, Bil ston—Mr M. Smith, Aston Villa School, Handsworth— Mr T. Whitford, Great Dover-street. AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE AT LIVERPOOL THIS WEEK.--The following steamers are due at Liverpool this week, with the United States and Canadian mails, viz., the City of London, with dutes from Now York to the 26th ult., and tho Peruvian from Portland, with corresponding dates may be expected, the former at Cape Clear or Queens town, and the latter at Greencastle in the course of to-mor row (Tuesday). On Saturday morning next the Cunard steamer Australasian, with dates to New York to Nov. 30, may be expected off Crookhaven or Queenstown. JOHN LEECH'S ARTISTIC' HABITS.—Mr Leech's life and character are in his own " Sketches of Life and Charac'er." Any anecdote that can be told of him has its double in his own works. Suppose we give this anec dote in the words of Mr Charles Dickens. He was very fond of a boy known to Mr Dickens, an extraordinary small boy, but of great spirit, who was a midshipman in the navy. " Whenever this boy came home from a cruise," says Mr Dickens, " he and Leech, and never any body else, used to go out in great state, and dine at the Garrick Club and go to the play, and finish in an exem plary way with kidneys and harmony. On the first of theie occasions, the officer came out so frightfully small that, Leech told us afterwards, he was filled with horror when he saw him eating his dinner at the Garrick with a large knife. On the other hand, he felt that to suggest a small knife to an officer and gentleman would be an unpardonable affront. So, after meditating for some time, he felt that his course was to object to the club knives as enormous and gigan tic ; to remonstrate with their servant on their huge pro portions, and with a grim dissatisfaction to demand small ones. After which he and the officer messed with great satisfaction, and agreed that things in general were running too large in England." But incidents like these are pre cisely what we find pictured in his pages ; and his friends, pointing to sketch after sketch, can say, " I told him that;;" ",This happened to himself;" " I was present when he came upon so and so." Wo select two sketches, for which we are indebted to Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, to illustrate this, not because they are greatly supe rior to others, but because they show his manner of working, The first is called " Private Theatricals," and appeared in the Almanac for 1854, with these words under it :—" Dismay of Mr James Jessamy on being told that he will spoil the Whole Thirg if he doesn't shave oft his Whiskers." The incident happened to himself; it is his own whiskers that were in question ; and it is himself that he is here making fun of. So again but a few weeks ago. there appeared in lunch the sketch of " A Little Scene at Brussels," with these words underneath, " T-mp k-ns (who has just come down breakfast) : Herd I say, Gareong ! I want a kelk chose for dfjewna) I der lioriee, and des Hoofs, you know 1 (N.B. The stout party, T. pokes in tho ribs is a wealthy Belgian swell)." Hero the incident is founded on actual occurrence. During this last summer ho went ICI the continent for the benefit of his b ealth, in company with Mr Elmore; and it was he himself mho made the mistake of addressing a Belgian gentleman as the waiter. But whereas he himself was tall, he pictures the hero of the escapade as short ; whereas he was a gentleman in all his ways, ho represents the said hero with the manners of a " gent" terrible in his French. The type of an im mense number of these sketches is to be Lund in his letters, and one must conceive of them as aform of published letter. lie writes to a young -tut most distinguished artist with whom he had formed a close friendship—" W hen do you re turn Y Mind, you present yourself here directly you come back. You are of course something like this by this time," and then on opposite pages of his letter ho draws with pun and ink two prodigious portraits of his friend, that illustrate the felicity with which he could give a likeness from memory, and preserve the likeness too, while confounding it with extravagances that have no existence in fact. So when he writes to another friend to appoint a day for hunting, he must wind up with a sketch of what is likely to take place on tho morning of the hunt, no was troubled with a want of sleep, and indicates on the sketch how difficult it will be to wake him up. Now, what we have here in the rough, in his letters, we have highly finished in his public works. Representing scenes of private life, they have the sam e re lation to art that a man's letters have to literature. They are his mode of correspondence, and they have the biogra phical character of a correspondence.—Cornhill Atagasine. 'rhe Mayor of Arbas (Haute -Garonne) committed suicide two days ago by blowing out hie brains with a gun during a moment of temporary insanity. IRON SHIPBUILDING AT CARDIFF.—On the 16th of last month the first iron steamer constructed in Cardiff was launched from the premises of Mr N. Scott Russell. She is called the Mallorca, and is built far a Spanish Royal Mail Company, to ran between Barcelona and the island of Majorca. lier dimensions are—length, 230 ft ; breadth, 2Gft ; depth, 15ft; and she is propelled by paddle engines 0 190 nominal borso power, which are guaranteed to drive her at 12 knots per hour. She is constructed up on M r Scott Rae sees longitudinal principle of iron, made by the Dowlais Company, ant is an elegant mod e l. The launch e xc ited considerable that siderab pleionrtt, and erest, as being the fi rs t th a t has taken p lace is expected to be the forernnnero from f many. Messrs Batchelo r an d M essrs H ill are also building proximity iron chips, and it i s t o b e h oped that, owing to its to one of the great i ron an d coa l f i elds, Cardiff ma y i one day become a formidable rival of Newcastle and the Clyde, ___,..._„,... The German Legal Protection Society, The following letter has been addressed to tb 4 editor of the Manchester Courier:— Sir,—The German Legal Protection Society in Lorao no which took up the case of the unfortunate Muller w;Ah so much earnestness and magnanimity, has introau eec ; the following passage in the memorial to the Queen 6 ' If Muller were one of the two men seen in ti railway carriage—though Mr Lee declares that he wias n o t—i t i s hard to conceive how he could h ave been found in posses-, sion of the whole of the property, as he 'would have to share it with his confederate. It is more probable that h e purchased it all from one of these men or from a Jew accom plice of theirs afterwards, under circumstances that -wh en he came to rEltet upon them, excited his own suspicion's." Vide Times, November 11. Tho undersigned abstains for tho present from all comment on this astoundi•ag paesage. Ile confines himself to the reproduction of ':he words in the columns of the Courier; and in doing so he begs to ask the aermsn Legal Protection Society, "by the support of what arguments the society assumes the right to express a presump.ion which, under all aspects. involves the most mortifying accusation to all the adherents of the Jcwish pet suasion ? What entitles the society to suppose that the itn agined accomplice could be no other than a Jew ?"Ihn Legal Protecti on S oc i ety cannot and must not leave ttais question without an answer. It owes an ex planation, tot merely to Jews, but also to-public opinion, which it, has irritated through its assertion. It owes besides an Qtplana tion to the sublime prin c ipl e o f equality and toleration that rules in this free country; an d fi nally it owes that explana tion to the great Fatherland in wh ose name aild interest th e society has stepped forward—to that v er y Fatherland, which, with a sentiment of noble indignation, has blotted out from her statutes and usages the difference between Jew and Christian. The undersigned is a member of the religious body which, according to the purport of the above passage is in danger of being charged with participation in the foul crime of murder. But at the same time he is a German, and is keenly alive to all that concerns his native land—ataff on both these circumstances he founds a right to make the following earnest demand to the society. It may be that the society or the reader will ask why precisely the under signed, and nobody else, has ventured to urge the grievance he mentions, No doubt the opprobrious expression the Legal Protection Society has made use of in the above pas sage awakens at this time in many a Jewish and Christian mind a burning indignation. But in concerns that speak so much for themselves, I think any person has the right to be heard who first feels the impulse to give utterance to the complaint. Manchester, Nov. ZO, 1861. H. Zinrinon.p. The Smithfield Club Cattle Show—This Day. This show opened this morniag at the AgriCultural Ha ll, Islington, the subscribers and the press being admitted to the galleries, while the judges were making their awards in the body of the building. The judges for cattle were For Devons, Herefords, Sussex, Norfolk, longhorns, Irish, and crossbreds—Messrs Samuel Rogers, Suthbury, New pagnell—.T. E. Jones, Springfield, near Hereford —and' W. Baker, Park Nook, Quorn, Derby. For shorthorns, Scotch, Welsh, and extra stock—E. Bowley, Siddinitort House, Cirencester—F. Fowler, Henlow,Bigg!es wade—J as. Topham, Welford, Notts. For Sheep—Leicesters, Cots wolds, Lincolns, Romney Marsh, Cross bred, Oxford, Moun tain, and extra—R. J. Newton, Campsfeld Farm, Wo-d -stock—John Marriott, Goventon, Southwell, Nott—Hugh Aylmer, West Denham Abbey, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk. Southdowns, Hants, Shropshire, and Ryland—H. Sugar Hengrave, Bury St Edmunds—J. Bryon Sonthleigh, Wit ney, Oxon—G. Cureton, Bram House, Shrewsbury, Pigs— S. Field, Farnafeld, Southwell, Notts—H. P. Jones, Port way, Warminster—Geo. Turner, Beacon Downs. War minster. The following prizes had been awarded up to the time of our going to press : CLASS I—Devon steers not exceeding 2 years 6 months old--let prize, No. 4, William Smith, of 85, Southern Cray, Exeter—silver medal to the breeder, George Turner, Beacon Downs, Exeter. 2d prize, No. 2, Robert Woithy, of Suffield, Aylsham, Norfolk. Highly commended, No 3, Major General the Hon. A. IL Hood, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, Herts. Class 2—Devon steers; not exceeding 3 years and 3 months old.—lst prize, No. 10, Harry Frampton, of Bland ford, Dorset—silver medal to the breeder, Rich. Alogridge, Mulland, South Molton, Devon. 2d prize, No. 12, Robert Farthing, of Farrington Farm, North I'eterton, Somerset —3d prize, No. 3, Charles Frederick Perkins, the Grange, Kingston, near Taunton, Somerset—highly commended. No. 6, Robert Gibbs, of Carhampton, Dunster, Somerset—. commended. No. 9, the Earl of Leicester, of Holkham, Norfolk. No. 14, William Smith, of Southernbay, Exeter, Devon. No. 16, Edward A. Sanders, of Stoko House, Exeter, Devon. CLASS 3—Devon Steers or Oxen above 3 years and 3 monthslold—lat prize, No. 18, Walter Farthing, of BONN ey - court, Bridgewater, Somerset—silver medal Ito the breeder, Sir A. Hood, Bart., M.P., of St. Awdry's, Bridgewater. 2d prize, No. 27, Henry Hine Ball, of Hankridge, West Monkton, Taunton, Somerset. 3d prize, No. 26, William Heath, of Ludham Hall, Norwich. Highly commended, Jrmes Witworth Buller, of Downes, Crediton, Devon—No. 24, William North, of 85, Southernhay, Exeter, Devon. Commended, No. 28, Alfred Beisly, of Spureho lt Farm, Romney, Hampshire. The Present Parliament. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As the Ministerial prints seem to think that the present Parliament is not at all unlikely to exist until the spring or summer of 1866, viz., a year and half from tho present time. allow me to observe through the medium of your valuable paper, that should such an event actually take place, it will bo the first time each a thing has hip pened for more than 100 years. During the reigns of George 3rd and 4th Parliament sat generally 6 years, but never longer, and there has been one Parliament, and ono only, during the present reign that has sat 6 years, and this was the Parliament of the late Sir R. reel, which was elected during the summer of 1841 and dissolved in 'the summer of 1847, and therefore existed just 6 years. With this one exception the present is the longest Parliament we have had since the firet Parliament of the reign of George IV., which was elected on the accession of the last-named monarch in the spring of 1820, and not die. solved until the summer of 1826, just over 6 years. The last Parliament which sat for anything like seven years was the first Parliament of George 111., which was elected in May 1761, seven weeks after that King's accession, and dis solved 61 years afterwards, as the next Parliament was as sembled May, 1768, exactly seven years afterwards, and considering the length of elections before the Reform Bill, a Parliament must have taken little less than half a year in, being got together. Sir R. Peel said at Tamworth the other day that in all probability the present 1 &Lament would continue to exist until the spring of 1866. If so ? What shall we behold ? A Whig Government which came in 34 years ago, with the watchwords, Peace, Retrenchment, Economy, Reform, and Short Parliaments. And lo I what do we behold, England in time of peace with a war expen diture; Reform laid completely on the shelf, and, instead of bhort Parliaments, a Parliament which even the Govern ment of Geo. 111. the very Guvernment which was so vio lently opposed by Junius and Willis, would have been ashamed of.—l remain, sir, your obedient servant, A LOVER OF 11 ISTORICAL DATES AND FACTS. DEATH OF A " LORD OF THE FoltEar."—Ciowai barrow Park has lost its king, and the adjoining fells the stag tht.t for about half a snore of years has proudly held sway over the herds that take up their quarters on the heights about Martindale. Ila was a noble fellow--one of the largest animals ever seen in this part of the country, and a dangerous enemy to any of its kind with temerity enough to &spot° his superiority. But what singlehanded none durst attempt, overwhelming numbers have accom plished. Like that of many other despots his reign bees= obnoxious to his subjects. A short time ago they rebelled, and attacked him in force; he fought a noble fight, but his enemies were numerous, and eventually he fell pierced by many wounds. His weight was immense, and his head and antlers considerably larger than anyanimal of the kind ever seen in this part of the country.—renrith raper. THE REWARD FOR MULLER'S CAPTURE.—UN' LUCKY that tthe c A n l b O n N i a E n T. i,% tt f h h e e w s H osmenetiteeodrettoary thehaswhole d ole ec o i f ded the reward of £3OO for giving information which led to the conviction of Muller for the murder of Mr Briggs. The sum has been ordered to be paid to him in a few days. In the meanwhile, unfortunately for him, ho has been arrested for a debt of £3O, by one of his numerous small creditor?, whose aggregate claims amount to £560. Though the present claimant only demands £3O, the others will of course lodge detainers against him, and a vesting order will be immediately obtained for the assignees to receive the whole of the money payable to him from the Government lie will thus not only enjoy no ben( fit whatever fromwhat has been called the'' blood money," but before he can re gain his liberty he will have to go trough the Court of Bankruptcy for the remaining £260. The place of l‘fr Matthews's confinement is the debt ors ' pr i son for the county of Surrey (liorsemonger-lane gaol). It is not true, as was currently reported for some time past, that the girl Eldred who was examined at the time with a view to esta blish the alibi, was Matthews' sister-in - law, to whom Muller had formerly been tngsged. A GREAT BAG. —Th e f o ll ow ing is a return of recent shootingi a preserves of a nobleman in Scot l and : — Seven guns, in 13 days, killed 9 grouse, 7 92 pheasant?, 1,042 partridges, 79 woodcocks, 25 snipes, 3,040 hares, and 1,836 rabbits—total, 6,823 head. At the average 'weights, this is 15 tons, or rather more than 1 ton per day, or 3201 b weight for oach gun per day, or 23 atone; so that, taking the shooters to be list each, each man shot twice his own weight in game per day.—Liverpool Albion. EGGS FROM ABROAD.--The enormous number of '291,597,240 eggs have been imported into this country in the first 10 months of the present year—not very far from a million a day. An assembly is about to be held at Rouen under the title of " Congres pour l'etude des fruits a cidre." The object of this meeting is the study of all questions concerns ing the culture of apples and pears.